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Title: Laughing Man by T. M. Wright ISBN: 0-8439-5084-6 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Some people don't seem to realize....
Comment: "Laughing Man" is the fifth in Mr. Wright's "Strange Seed" ("children of the earth") series, begun, of course, with "Strange Seed" (1978, Everest House, then pb by Playboy and TOR Books), and followed by "Nursery Tale," "The Children of the Island," and "The People of the Dark." Those who haven't read at least one of these books won't completely understand "Laughing Man." I've read all of them and I found "Laughing Man" quite absorbing.
Rating: 3
Summary: Enjoyable But Falls Apart
Comment: In "Laughing Man", one could argue that the story falls apart the same as the character does. That his world spirals into madness and confusion, and we, as readers, are expected to take the ride with him. Okay, that's fine. I understand. But confusion does not satisfy my need for a solid, scary story. I'm someone who needs a payoff. Yes, the book is well written and starts off very powerful, but I had to work hard to get through the last 100 pages. I usually love this writer, and although I was still entertained by "Laughing Man", I would recommend some of T.M.'s other work for new readers. "The Last Vampire" and "Sleepeasy" are both much better.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretentious and overly elliptical
Comment: Jack Erthmun ,the protagonist of this book ,is an NYPD homicide detective of deeply unothodox hue.A sufferer from echolalia-a tendency to repeat the last words of what the last person said to him -he is withdrawn ,solitary and has working methods that trouble his superiors.He seems almost to bond with the dead-------he "hears" them speak andthey feed him clues .
He is assigned to a series of notably brutal killings--the victims have chocolate stuffed into their mouths and have been cannibalised.The slayers are a series of women who are clearly not of natural origin ,and there are clear signs that Jack himself is linked in some way to them ,and may himself be the product of a union between his mother and one of these creatures who home is in the woods near the family residence in the Adirondacks.
The book -initially tightly controlled and unsettling -spirals out of control and gets more and more ambiguous as it develops .Indeed the open ended conclusion suggests to me that Mr Wright himself did not know how to end the book .
Some scenes are of a gut clenching intensity that belies the author's reputation as a purveyor of "quiet horror" but overall this book confirmed my view of the author from previous encounters-that he is pretentious and does not possess a strong narrative sense.
Others -it is clear from the reviews on this page -rate the book highly but I do not recommend it to devotees of horror fiction who like emphasis on plot and narrative as it sems to me to be deficient in these matters
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Title: The Last Vampire by T. M. Wright ISBN: 0843949392 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The House on Orchid Street by T. M. Wright ISBN: 0843950900 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sleepeasy by T. M. Wright ISBN: 0843948647 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Cold House by T.M. Wright, Jack Ketchum ISBN: 9185075027 Publisher: Catalyst Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Blood Games by Richard Laymon ISBN: 0843951818 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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